meow

Other forms of meow

plural

meows·

past tense

meowed·

present participle

meowing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meow

What does meow mean?

meow means "the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meow?

meow has 2 syllables: me-ow. The stress falls on "ow". In IPA it is /miˈaʊ/.

What is another word for meow?

Close synonyms include mew, miaou, miaow, miaul, mew. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meow a common word?

meow is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with meow?

2 words rhyme with meow. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.